Thursday, September 3, 2009

Kiravi, Kilavi and Kay Vee

The cars are ranged with order in a spacious parking lot. In the chilly night air, three men flank the pinched entrance. We’re admitted for GHC 7 apiece. The anteroom yawns into three more rooms. The room on the right hides behind a closed door. Directly ahead is a vacant bar. On the right is the door to the club. Inside, the DJ’s box, the bar and black settees besiege the static dance floor. Pillars oddly screen the sitting area. The music is Dancehall (called Ragga) and Hiplife. I think they love “Simple”. The DJ drops crowd favourites over and over again. The collective fragrance is not sweet. Masculine BO chokes the air. Coarse tones are whispered everywhere in non-English. The bar stands mostly unemployed. Crashing glass sounds keep the time every few minutes. What there is a lot of, is sloppy, inter-dance snogging. It’s clustered thick as seeds. It’s time overdue to go at 1.30 a.m.

6 comments:

  1. Yikes, BO, sloppy snogs?! Thats one place I'll skip! I prefer the meat filled areas that would keep the carnivore in me happy!

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  2. It's not too bad oo. The (what do they call it?) ambience is generally great!

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  3. Love your K'SI/Osei-krom chronicles...You have started a debate in my office. Is Kiravi still open? My office-mate is insisting it closed??? Non-English eh? That is too funny!

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  4. Kiravi is still kicking. I was there on Friday,August 28, 2009!

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  5. "KILLAVI" is still growing strong, it's about the only club which is highly patronised by knust students, since yagola shut down.
    NY, come back soon :-)

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  6. Whilst a student at KNUST I never went to Kiravi, saw the building only once. Yet I knew of it. A friend once told me that the name started off as a French name and it was 'murdered' with the l and r and was had to be changed to suit the people. Interesting...

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